Castling

/ˈkɑːstlɪŋ/ · noun

Meaning

(obsolete) An abortion, or a premature birth..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) An abortion, or a premature birth.
2. (obsolete) The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season.
3. A miniature cast or mould.
4. One that is cast.
5. (chess) A move in which the king moves two squares towards a rook, and the rook moves to the other side of the king; the action of the verb to castle.
6. (shogi) The act of constructing a defense structure in Japanese chess in which the king (玉) is positioned in a certain way so that it is protected by pawns (歩) and silver general(s) (銀) and/or gold general(s) (金) often with an additional knight (桂) and lance (香車).
7. present participle and gerund of castle

Example Sentences

1646: Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon the urine in a castling’s bladder — Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch 5

From the Celeste's own image was the first castling molded. A soft, delicate creature of flesh and blood she would call Woman. So that Her castlings may never feel the loneliness she Herself did suffer, she bestowed woman with a mate [...]

[…] ſhift for themselves, and ſeek out new habitations; ſuch caſtlings might in their waudring throughout the South Sea (moſt of the Oriental Iſlands being formerly inhabited by their Off-ſpring) fall with the coaſt of Peru, […]

Castling is prevented temporarily: […] If there is any piece between the king and the rook with which castling is to be effected.

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• castlings

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